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We all need a champion. We all need a safe harbour for our souls. We all need someone with whom to converse about the most pressing issues in our lives. Being a champion is a privileged role. Some of us are blessed to have a grandparent, partner, friend or sibling...

Hello my friend! Isn't this just a beautiful photo from Ivy's time in China? Two little friends holding on to each other. They need a day of friendship dedicated to them! Let's give them one! Shall we call tomorrow FRIENDSHIP DAY? How do you feel about...

What do you love?  I love my precious people, strolls, the seaside, parks, hills, rivers, gardens and our bouncing puppy. You might classify them as creations and creatures. If you were to ask yourself about the things you love which were in the environment but?...

      Well, my friends! I have news! Little Christy’s behaviour has not been what any of the books or videos said about having a puppy! It has felt like an episode of Fawlty Towers most of the time and everyone has so such knowledge about what...

How are you with resolutions? Love them? Like them? Feel like a failure with them? Wherever you are within that trajectory, there will be someone looking at your life and efforts with admiration! It is easy to overlook that kind of perspective when we are confronted...

When I was a scruffy little Geordie Tornado; Inspiring Ivy and my lovely Mummy were certain that manners mattered. There had to be a PLEASE and a THANK YOU  in every request and reply. Being able to say THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME is one of the most blessed phrases...

I have a confession. I’ve never cooked a traditional Christmas dinner. To be very open ~ I’ve never had the energy for it. I was either too ill, too ill to eat it, too busy taking care of someone very ill or working to take care of very sad people. Therefore, I had...

      How are you coping? I have an hour this morning to sort out the presents. I’ve given myself an hour to blitz the present cupboard and assign the stuff! When I say stuff, I mean thoughtful and hopefully, generous presents ~ in other words...

Ivy wrote letters every day! Her handwriting was tiny and exact with her grace overflowing from the envelopes! She used Basildon Bond blue notepaper and blue biro. The stamps were kept on the little shelf thing behind the electric fire (I know it sounds dangerous but...